Events

Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies
The Vatican Film Library and its journal, Manuscripta, annually host the Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies. The conference, known familiarly as the Manuscripta Conference, has no set theme and serves as a general forum for manuscript scholars to meet and discuss their work with colleagues. Each year a distinguished scholar is invited to deliver the Fr. Lowrie J. Daly, S.J., Lecture on Manuscript Studies. Topics addressed at the conference range from Antiquity through the early modern period and include, but are not limited to:

  • Paleography
  • Illumination
  • Binding
  • Library History
  • Textual Criticism
  • Codicology
  • Book Production
  • Diplomatics
  • Reading and Literacy
  • Manuscript Cataloguing

The program, travel information,and registration form for the 2007 conference are now available.

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies NEH Fellowship Lectures
Recipients of the CMRS-NEH Fellowship are required to deliver one public lecture on the topic of their research. See lecture schedule for more information.